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This 9 yr old gelding last won 6 starts and over 2 years ago, but was a decent third (his second such finish in his last three outings) at Newbruy last time out, over this trip and also on soft ground.

That was, however, a Class 2 hurdle and now for his second crack at the largewr obstacles, he drops two classes to run here, where conditons look favourable at the very least, because so far, he is...

4/10 in fields of 7 to 12 runners

3/10 under Richard Johnson

3/8 on soft ground

2/5 at Class 4

1 win and 1 place from 2 at 3m1f

As suggested above, he'll be ridden by Richard Johnson, who has a good record riding for Philip Hobbs and of particular interest to me here in the following angle...

And it's also worth adding the fact that Philip Hobbs' chasers on a losing run of 1 to 8 races and now with an Official rating lower than their last win are 32/154 (20.8% SR) for 58.7pts (+38.1% ROI) since 2012, of which...

at trips of 2m6.5f to 3m2.5f : 19/83 (22.9%) for 72.5pts (+87.4%)

at class 4 : 15/38 (39.5%) for 48.1pts (+126.7%)

on soft : 8/37 (21.6%) for 10.3pts (+27.8%)

...giving us...a 1pt win bet on Uncle Jimmy at 9/2 BOG with Bet365 and/or BetVictor who led the way at 5.40pm on Sunday. To see your preferred bookies' odds, simply...